SuperFriends Team Member
Rima the Jungle Girl | |
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Information | |
Real name: | Rima |
AKA: | The Daughter of the Didi |
Species: | Metahuman |
Homeworld: | Earth |
Universe: | Earth-1A |
Hair: | White |
Base: | Hall of Justice |
Affiliations: | SuperFriends |
Abilities: | communicates with animals |
Voiced/Played: | Shannon Farnon (Season 2) Kathy Garver (1980 Short)[?] |
Rima Gallery |
Rima the Jungle Girl is a superheroine and a part-time member of the Justice League of America.
Background Information
Natives avoided her forest, calling her "the Daughter of the Didi" (an evil spirit), but Rima's only defense is a reputation for magic, earned through the display of strange talents such as talking to birds, befriending animals, and plucking poison darts from the air.[1]
Abilities
- She has the ability to communicate with animals.
- She is an expert:
- tracker
- at hand-to-hand combat
- wilderness survival
- She has an extensive knowledge of animal habitats and jungle lore.
- She possesses the strength level of a woman her age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Episode Appearances
Notes
- Rima sprang from a Victorian adventure novel, 'Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest', published in 1904 by the Argentine-British writer W. H. Hudson. He based Rima on a persistent South American legend about a lost tribe of white people who lived in the mountains. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1959 in which actress Audrey Hepburn portrayed her. The film also starred Anthony Perkins and was directed by Mel Ferrer.
- Rima first appeared in comic book form in Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1, #1[2] (May 1974).
- The series was a short-lived seven-issue comic book series Rima the Jungle Girl, published by DC Comics from May 1974 to May 1975.[3].
- Rima the Jungle Girl is published on a bi-monthly basis.
- It was adapted by an uncredited writer. Starting with issue #5, DC writer-editor Robert Kanigher is given credit.
- Rima is not intended to be a Tarzan type character, rather she was intended to be portrayed as:[4]
- goddess of the forest
- preserver of the forest
- preserver of the animals
SuperFriends Team Members
Members of the Justice League |
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External Links
- See Rima the Jungle Girl at wikipedia.org
- See Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1(May 1974 - May 1975) at DC Database
- See Rima at Public Domain Super Heroes
References
- ↑ Based on her 7-part comic book series, Rima the Jungle Girl, Vol. 1 (May 1974 - May 1975) which can be found at the DC Database .
- ↑ Go to the DC Database for more on Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1, #1 (May 1974)
- ↑ As revealed in the 7-part comic book series, Rima the Jungle Girl, Vol. 1 (May 1974 - May 1975).
- ↑ From the DVD commentary on Season 2 vol. 1.